Elon Musk's X company said it is funding the lawsuits of a Canadian doctor who has previously been reprimanded by regulators over her tweets about the coronavirus (COVID-19).

In a post on the X News account on Sunday morning, the company formerly known as Twitter wrote that it is "proud to defend" Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against what it calls "government-backed efforts to cancel her speech."

In 2021, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario warned the pediatric specialist in Brampton, Ontario about her tweets, including a tweet claiming that vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID-19) is unnecessary.

The doctor has an ongoing crowdfunding campaign requesting $300,000 to help cover legal costs, including a cost order related to the lawsuit she filed against what she called a "harmful online defamation campaign."

Gill issued a post on the X site saying Musk's company committed to paying the remainder of her crowdfunding campaign and assisting her in appealing the college's warnings dating back to 2021.

Gill referred to "Musk" in a post requesting his help earlier this week, saying she owes about $300,000 in costs due within four days.

Publicly available legal files show that Gill previously filed a lawsuit against 23 defendants. The lawsuit was dismissed, and the defendants were ordered to pay costs totaling more than $1.1 million.

Gill appealed the dismissal decision, concerning only her claim against four of the defendants, and requested permission to appeal related cost orders. The appeal was denied, and her permission to appeal the cost orders was refused.

Last August, Musk posted on X a promise to fund the legal bills of anyone "treated unfairly" by employers "because of posting or liking something on this platform."

He wrote, "No limit."

It has been nearly a year and a half since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, turning the previously publicly traded company into a private one.

Since then, he has renamed the platform X and made sweeping changes, including dismantling its verification system, and cutting the majority of the workforce including engineers and moderators.

Experts have expressed concerns about the amount of misinformation being posted and algorithmically promoted on X, including topics such as the war between Israel and Hamas.